US Patent Issued to Krones on Sept. 15 for "Device and method for applying packaging film to groups of articles" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,213, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Krones AG (Neutraubling, Germany).

"Device and method for applying packaging film to groups of articles" was invented by Peter Haidacher (Kiefersfelden, Germany), Herbert Spindler (Niedermoosen, Germany), Juergen Werner (Bruckmuehl, Germany), Peter Koch (Rohrdorf, Germany) and Florian Kochinke (Stephanskirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (1) for applying packaging film to groups of articles (12) comprises a horizontal conveyor (5) for transporting groups of articles (12) and a feed apparatus (15) which introduces pieces of cut packaging film (14) into a transport path of ...